Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Depends on what you mean by industrial clunk! :) It was an efficient sounding music to my ears and most of my photographer friends for decades and still is. I'm aware the Leicaflexs are quieter. Do they sound more refined? Less industrial? Wiki says the Leicaflex shutters cost them much to make that every camera sold they lost money on. My M LTM shutters are made of cloth but the reflex cameras were metal. We Nikon users of previous decades never picked up on this shoddy workmanship of loose tolerances your talking about. The cameras had a great feel great build and just worked! More quiet than my Hasselblad. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:39:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT Nikon D600 > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I've also owned most of those bodies having used them extensively over >> decades and I'd describe their mirror operation as excellent which would >> be >> stating the obvious and a long time industry consensus.. I spent very >> little >> to nothing on repair. They're reputation was deservedly excellent. Not >> sure >> if a Minolta I mean the early Leica R's was as reliable. I'm thinking not. >> Way not. > > Nikon's reputation for reliability (apart from resistor rings) was in part > due > to the loose tolerances that allowed dirt and grime to fall right through > them > while a camera with tighter tolerances depends more on keeping the dreck > out. > And I would not describe the F as having a quiet mirror action. It was > more > an industrial clunk. The Leicaflexes are quieter and smoother in my > experience, and apart from the FTN resistor ring (parts getting scarce by > the > mid-1980s) and the SL's shutter speed dial (parts still available) the > reliability was pretty much the same. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information